RLFR 320
Slums and Housing Projects: Writing Urban Margins in French and Francophone Literature Spring 2013
Division I Writing Skills
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In this course we will explore the politics and poetics of fiction that engages marginalized urban spaces in France and the francophone world. From the depiction of informal settlements in Martinique in Patrick Chamoiseau’s epic novel Texaco to the shantytowns of Casablanca in Mahi Binebine’s Les étoiles de Sidi Moumen to the Parisian housing projects in Gisèle Pineau’s Un papillon dans la cité and Didier Mandin’s Banlieue Voltaire, we will explore how literature represents neighborhoods that exist in the face of dominant discourses of urban redevelopment that work to destroy them. What voices and histories emerge from these spaces under aggression? And how does literature claim to speak from and for these marginalized communities? Readings will include both literary works and theoretical readings from urban studies and geography. Conducted in French.
The Class: Format: tutorial
Limit: 10
Expected: 10
Class#: 3703
Grading: OPG
Requirements/Evaluation: six 5-page tutorial papers
Prerequisites: any RLFR literature course
Enrollment Preferences: French and Comparative Literature majors
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills

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